Atlanta is a hotbed of biotech and life sciences talent.

We have Georgia Tech, Emory, the Center for Disease Control, and many other institutions with incredible doctors, researchers, and engineers — plus funding and facilities for innovation.

One of the reasons my Atlanta Ventures colleague A.T. Gimbel started the Atlanta Healthcare Meetup was to highlight and bring together the people and companies in these spaces!

I often meet great founders working on healthcare, biotech, medical devices, or life sciences who are raising money.

Here are some great Atlanta-based firms to check out!

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8 Atlanta-Based Healthcare & Life Sciences Firms To Check Out

(1) Laerdal Million Lives Fund

• Invests in digital solutions to help save lives
• Fund success metric = number of lives saved ❤️
• Becca Shmukler is in Atlanta, though parent company Laerdal (producer of CPR mannequins) is HQ’d in Norway

(2) Shorewind Capital

• Early stage frontier tech that optimizes health and climate
• Nick Fragnito is an Atlanta-based partner and also awesome triathlete!

(3) Wellstar Catalyst

• $100M fund to provide capital to startups improving the healthcare ecosystem
• Check out their 6 keys areas of focus
• Stefanie Diaz, also the host of She Conquers Capital, runs the program

(4) Portal Innovations

• Early stage biotech and medtech investment
• Building co-working lab space at Tech Square, coming online in 2024
• Suna Lumeh is head of the Atlanta market

(5) Steel Sky Ventures

• Female-led fund investing in women’s health
• Medical devices, consumer health, digital health, new healthcare delivery models, ePharmacy, retail therapeutics
• Maria Velissaris, the founding partner, recently moved to Atlanta 🍑

(6) Noro-Moseley Partners

• Series A or B funding for digital healthcare companies
• $10-20M investment for companies with $2-$20M ARR
• Ryan Collins focuses on healthcare; Elizabeth Stephens does general B2B tech

(7) Fulcrum Equity Partners

• Series A or B funding for healthcare services (or B2B SaaS)
• $5-30M investment with $1M EBITDA or $2M ARR
• Phil Lewis is a partner and long-time Atlantan

(8) BIP Ventures

• Seed, Series A, Series B for software or tech enabled services including healthcare
• Tami McQueen is an amazing community and startup leader

(P.S. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Atlanta Ventures does seed/Series A for digital healthcare companies, primarily B2B SaaS, but we’ll be a footnote, not on the numbered list 😜)

We’re lucky to have many great firms in Atlanta!

Of course, there’s always startups that aren’t the right stage or target for these firms.

No problem!

Here are 10 more life science investors PLUS a bonus section on Who’s Who in the Southeast biotech world.

(Spoiler Alert: a few more GA-based firms are on that list.)

Remember to build that relationship, talk about the money, and let the fundraising commence!

What other healthcare or biotech firms in Atlanta should be added to this list??